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Raimi research on economic and environmental benefits of plugging orphan wells reflected in Biden infrastructure proposals

Apr 16, 2021

Hundreds of thousands--perhaps millions--of oil and gas wells in the U.S. have been walked away from by oil and gas companies over the past 150 years. Known as “orphan wells,” they represent a threat to the environment through leaking the greenhouse...

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Ciorciari’s new book sheds light on sovereignty sharing

Mar 11, 2021

In fragile states, where human rights violations run amuck and conflicts create instability, domestic and international actors sometimes take the extraordinary step to share sovereignty to combine knowledge and resources to increase accountability...

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Dynarski’s research shows default options key to student loan repayment

Feb 13, 2021

Susan Dynarski’s recent research, “Designed to fail: Effects of the default option and information complexity on student loan repayment,” shows the powerful effects of default options and how making an income driven repayment (IDR) plan the default...

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Lantz co-authors U.S. county-by-county study showing social inequality's role in COVID-19's toll

Jan 29, 2021

The higher a county's score on a national index of social vulnerability, the more cases and deaths per 100,000—highlighting the role of social factors in spread. In just one year, COVID-19 has killed more than 400,000 Americans, and infected more...

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Lantz charts a pathway for equitable actions on COVID-19

Jan 6, 2021

When new waves of the current COVID-19 pandemic emerge, or another novel pandemic emerges, how can the United States be better prepared and also ensure a rapid response that reduces rather than exacerbates social and health inequities? In a...

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Research into action: Hausman’s research key to new legislation

Dec 15, 2020

Methane is the primary component of natural gas, a greenhouse gas with 34 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. It has been estimated that more than one percent of methane in the U.S. supply chain escapes into the atmosphere, much of...

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Seizing military weapons does not increase violent crime nor risk police safety, Lowande study shows

Dec 7, 2020

More local law enforcement agencies are using military equipment, such as tear gas, armored vehicles and rubber bullets, to handle social justice protests—calling into question police militarization. But if police no longer used weapons and...

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Dynarski examines cost-effective ways to improve global learning on Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel

Oct 28, 2020

A report released by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) looks at “the best investments to improve the quality and take-up of education in developing countries, as the world faces a learning crisis, with the coronavirus pandemic...

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Rabe examines Trump’s “Administrative Presidency” in a new book

Oct 1, 2020

The administration of Donald Trump has used executive orders and regulatory changes in a far-reaching expansion of presidential power to reverse many policies of the Obama administration. In a new book published by the Brookings Institution Press,...

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Employer Resource Networks hold promise to increase retention and improve productivity of entry-level workers - Shaefer

Sep 24, 2020

Employer Resource Networks (ERNs) involve local networks of employers collectively providing work support services to their entry-level workforce. In a paper published for the American Enterprise Institute, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of...

Luke Shaefer delivers a talk at the Ford School

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Thacher’s study sheds light on emerging model to improve policing

Sep 23, 2020

Ford School professor David Thacher’s new study, “The Learning Model of Use-of-Force Reviews,” examines how common use-of-force incident reviews can be used as a learning tool for policing. Use of force criteria and practice have been a hotly...

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Parthasarathy’s report shows innovation policy ignores marginalized communities

Sep 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed policymaking biases that have ignored poor and marginalized communities, argues Ford school professor Shobita Parthasarathy. In a paper, Innovation Policy, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19, published in the...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

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Government science boards are seen through a political lens - study

Sep 9, 2020

The current debate about federally-funded scientific research reflects an ongoing trend: What people think of the scientists who advise the federal government partially depends on their own political persuasion and where the scientists work. That is...

Medicaid expansion does not discourage job-seeking among the unemployed

Mar 16, 2020

Although some worry that Medicaid expansion could discourage unemployed workers from seeking employment, a University of Michigan study found that Medicaid expansion did not affect whether unemployed workers found jobs. In fact, the study found...

News

Rabe explores taxing methane emissions

Mar 16, 2020

Representing a new line of research, Ford School professor Barry Rabe explores the politics around taxing methane gas releases. Rabe argues that consensus among economists is “the best way to reduce climate risks linked to carbon dioxide emissions...

Lantz contributes to National Academies advisory report for "Healthy People 2030"

Feb 12, 2020

Professor Paula Lantz contributed her expertise to a recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus report that informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publication Leading Health...

Report finds gaps in access to career, technical ed programs

Feb 5, 2020

A new University of Michigan report detailing access to career and technical education programs in Michigan has found that while CTE courses are popular among high school students, there’s a gap in access to them.CTE courses prepare students to work...

People operating machines in a training environment

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Faculty Findings: Fall 2019

Nov 19, 2019

Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant on gender wage discrimination The gender pay gap is notoriously alive and well, decades after women entered the workforce in large numbers. Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant explored this issue together many times over...

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Robert Axelrod on the evolution of cooperation

Oct 1, 2019

Using the prisoner’s dilemma from game theory through a biological lens, Robert Axelrod, along with evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton, unearthed a theory on the evolution of cooperation that ultimately influenced views on war, governing the...

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Carl Simon on the spread of HIV

Oct 1, 2019

Carl Simon and his research group were among the first to estimate the contagiousness of HIV. This was difficult to do simply with empirical data since many of those infected, especially in the first San Francisco epidemic, did not know when or by...

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Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant on gender wage discrimination

Oct 1, 2019

The gender pay gap is notoriously alive and well, decades after women entered the workforce in large numbers. Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant explored this issue together many times over the years. In one important study, published in 1993, the...

Alan V. Deardorff analyzes rules of origin impact on the efficacy of free trade agreements

Sep 12, 2019

Alan V. Deardorff's latest research on international trade evaluates the timely topic of rules of origins (ROOs) impact on free trade agreements (FTAs). When forming an FTA including ROOs is a necessary practice for the pairs and groups of countries...

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Bike sharing research by Hampshire wins EURO Award

Jun 26, 2019

Robert Hampshire was part of the author team that won the EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper announced today during the annual European Conference on Operational Research in Dublin. Conveyed by EURO, the Association of European Operational Research...

Pilkauskas finds Earned Income Tax Credit helps low-income moms live on their own

Jun 20, 2019

Increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit helps low-income single mothers improve their housing outcomes as they are less likely to live in crowded households and more likely to live independently, according to a University of Michigan study.The...

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Scott Atran et al look at cognitive triggers for extremist violence through brain scans

Jun 19, 2019

In a new journal article, a team of scientists led by Scott Atran, an adjunct research professor at the University of Michigan’s Ford School and Institute for Social Research, reveals insights into the psychology of radicalization and terrorist...

Iovan and Lantz discuss their latest research on super-utilizers

May 14, 2019

On May 13, 2019, Michigan News published a Q&A with the Ford School’s Samantha Iovan and Paula Lantz, along with the Department of Emergency Medicine at U-M Medical School’s Mahshid Abir. The three, with help from student Katie Allan (MPP ‘19),...

Raimi et al. publish analysis on pro-environmental spillover behaviors in Nature

Apr 12, 2019

Assistant Professor Kaitlin Raimi co-authored a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability on April 9, 2019. The article addresses the presence of behavior spillover, or the likelihood that one behavioral change will lead to...

Professor Leahy's latest paper studies the economic effects of wishful thinking

Apr 12, 2019

In a new paper entitled “Wishful Thinking” published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-authors Andrew Caplin (a professor of economics at the New York University) and John Leahy from the University of Michigan, analyze the economic...

Professor Kevin Stange breaks down the cost of college education

Feb 15, 2019

As obtaining a college degree becomes more expensive, and student debt climbs over $1 trillion, questions often wonder as to where all the money goes. Such curiosity spikes even more as tuition increases year after year. To assuage such...

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Gerber assesses Detroiters' public opinion

Jan 7, 2019

As a research lead for U-M’s Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS), Elisabeth Gerber assesses Detroit residents’ views on crime, policing, transportation, local government and more. Thus far three waves of surveys have been used to publish...

Elisabeth Gerber to represent Washtenaw County on Regional Transit Authority teaser image